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In this DevOps world deployment diagrams help document not just how a system relates to other components, but how the underlaying…

Note: previously I tried to keep personal stuff off this blog, and have that be on another site. I decided to revisit that decision, and now…

My 2021 Year In Books 2021 saw a lot of reading and thinking and - mostly, except towards the end - not a lot of new tech. However, like…

Some senior+ developer roles have a lot going on. In my work I had many inputs happening concurrently: meetings, Slack messages, email, and…

Intro For a good sized microservice herd it’s important to know how these services relate to each other. How much internal traffic does X…

I made a video about how gtoolkit’s Wardley Map functionality works. Check it out, on Youtube: Link

Intro Ansible is a configuration management, multi-machine task running, DevOps automating declarative devops tool. I’ve used it for things…

Intro In my earlier software projects and planes of growth I posited that software projects have five steps of growth: foundations, testing…

I draw a lot of diagrams at work. What makes it kind of worse is that now a days I’m very cross-platform: while I still enjoy the power duo…

In grooming and backlog refinement in software we find ourselves breaking functionality into epics, which then have many stories, and - from…